These are the weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on Fridays. You can read the full transcript on our Slack channel and find the meeting’s agenda here.
Updates from working groups
Only working groups that provided updates are shown below.
Documentation
The Test team wanted to know if there were any documented processes by the Accessibility team on how to properly test for accessibility issues/regressions. The idea here is to document the most common environments/setups used for testing by the Accessibility team. This way everyone will know how to check for accessibility issues. If anyone would like to assist in refining our documentation, please speak with @azhiyadev.
General
There hasn’t been much going on in General with preparations for WordPress 5.8.1. One ticket that did get fixed for this release is #53641: Can not configure image widget (and others) in widget accessability mode.
Gutenberg
- Gallery Block Refactor has some nice accessibility wins in the form of enabling each image in a gallery to have easy to add alt text now.
- 11.3 included the new Dimensions panel to start building out more options there for different blocks. This led to dimension controls being added for things like the featured image block.
- 11.4 included a change allowing for child blocks to absorb parent block controls. It needs testing and iteration, including trying it out in various blocks. There’s more discussion on how best to approach this here.
- The latest FSE Call for Testing led to a number of issues opened around the navigation block and improving accessibility. Recap to come asap.
- Gutenberg PR that could use some accessibility testing. Improve file block download button accessibility
Media
A change is coming in WordPress 5.8.1 which will adjust the number of media items that load after Load More button is selected. Other than that, just a few small odds and ends.
Themes
There is only one new theme awaiting review for the Accessibility Ready tag.
Open floor
Nothing for Open floor this week.